Sunday,June,10,2007

Death on a California Poppy

Photograph of a Crab Spider eating a Bee on a California Poppy

Crab Spiders have an extremely toxic poison. Toxic enough to ambush and kill a bee that is several times its size—poison so fast acting that the bee doesn’t have a chance to escape the flower before dying…

Shot today in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco at the Strybing Arboretum, one of my favorite places to shoot bugs…

Wednesday,June,06,2007

Lindy Hoppers invade Union Square in San Francisco!!!

A mass invasion by a mass of joyful dancers makes Union Square in San Francisco a hopping spot today

If anyone has contact information for this group, please send me an email, and I’ll update the posting with a link to their site. Note, these photos have been resized and converted, but have not been edited/touched up etc… Sorry, simply ran out of time and wakefulness tonight. If you’re interested in using a photo let me know, I have the 15mb raw image files. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy the shots as much as I enjoyed taking them!

Monday,February,12,2007

Happy Birthday Abe!

Photograph of the Lincoln Memorial at night

Happy Birthday Abe! You were a hell of a man!

When I had the good fortune to visit Washington D.C. Last year, one of the things that I was sure to see was the Lincoln Memorial. It was awe inspiring and caused me to reflect on what a significant human being he was and how important he was to our country. Of course I “had” to get pictures of the memorial at night… Sheila was her usual tolerant and patient wife and accompanied me on a night time jaunt through the mall…

I can think of no better time than the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth to post a picture of the Lincoln Memorial.

Question:
Are we going to be able to put in place a Democratic government in a
country that is populated by hugely different ethnic groups that don’t
like each other, and may lack the societal acumen to make democracy
work?

Answer:
From Foreign Affairs: Was Iraq a Fool’s Errand?
Iraq lacks any of the preconditions academics generally accept as being necessary for democratization to succeed. It has no middle class to speak of independent from the state; oil revenues, the life-line of any Iraqi regime, are notorious for their ability to centralize rather than democratize power; the country has no tradition of limited or responsible government; national identity is weak in the face of rival religious or ethnic loyalties; regional neighbors will do what they can to undermine whatever democratizing movements exist......

Question:
Is the estimated $100 BILLION that we’ll spend on Iraq best spent there?